ir-writer, 344.

Besenval, Pierre Victor, Baron de (1722-1791), memoir-writer, 442.

Bestiaries, 79, 145.

Beyle, Henri (1783-1842), novelist and critic, 517.

Beza, Theodore (1519-1605), dramatist and translator, 218, 231.

Bible, 78.

_Bibliotheque des Romans_, 502.

Billaut, A. (1600-1662) poet, 280.

Bichat, M. F. X. (1771-1802), scientific writer, 501.

Blanc, L. (1813-1882), historian, 577.

_Blancandin et l'Orguilleuse d'Amour_, 96.

_Blandin de Cornoalha_, 30.

Blason, 210.

_Blasphemateurs_, 121.

_Blonde d'Oxford_, 98.

Blot (1610-1655) poet, 278.

Bodel, Jean (b. 1269), trouvere, 42, 91, 111.

Bodin, Jean (1530-1596), lawyer, 248.

_Boethius_, Provencal poem on, 28, 29.

Boetie, Etienne de la (1530-1563), poet and political writer, 209, 242,
243, 249.

Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711), poet and critic, 284-287.

Boisrobert, F. Le Metel de (1592-1662), poet and dramatist, 278.

Bonald, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de (1754-1840), political
writer, 498, 515.

Bordigne, Charles de (16th cent.), poet, 171.

Borel, P. (1809-1859), poet and novelist, 547.

Bornier, H. de (b. 1825), dramatist, 556.

Borron, Robert and Helie de (12th and 13th cent.), 35, 36.

Bossuet, Jacques Benigne (1627-1704), theologian and preacher, 380-383.

Bouchardy, Joseph (1810-1870), dramatist, 553.

Bouchet, Guillaume (d. 1607), tale-teller, 194.

Bouchet, Jehan (1476-1555), historian and poet, 171, 172, 194.

Bouciqualt, Jean le Maigre (d. 1421), memoir-writer, 105.

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), traveller, 502.

Bouilhet, L. (1821-1872), poet, 550.

Boulainvilliers, Henri de (1658-1722), historian and political writer,
438.

Bourdaloue, Louis (1632-1704), theologian, 387.

_Bourgeois Gentilhomme_, 312.

Boursault, Edme (1638-1708), dramatist, 315.

_Bradamante_, 224.

Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Abbe de (1540-1614), memoir-writer,
249-252.

Brebeuf, Guillaume de (1618-1661), poet, 287.

Breu-doble, 31.

Brienne, Comte de (17th cent.), memoir-writer, 339.

Brizeux, Auguste (1803-1858), poet, 546.

Brodeau, Victor (1470-1540), poet, 177.

Brosses, Ch. de (1709-1777), miscellanist, 503.

Brunetiere, F., critic, 565.

Brueys, D. A. de (1640-1725), dramatist, 317.

_Brun de la Montaigne_, 26, 92.

Brunetto Latini (1220-1294), scholar, 145, 152.

_Bueves de Commarchis_, 93.

Buffon, George Lewis Leclerc, Count de (1707-1788), naturalist, 499.

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